[sugar] Re: ftable issue in csound/sugar

[Christopher Blizzard]

How about just starting up the csound program only when it's needed?  As 
a service?

--Chris

Simon Schampijer wrote:
> I can see the issue here. The problem is that if the daemon is running 
> the soundcard will be blocked. I you want to start another app (like a 
> csound command line) you will be informed that the soundcard is already 
> in use.
> 
> There are two 'solutions' to that problem: One is to add dynamic loading 
> of instruments to csound5, which will take some time even so Barry and I 
> discussed this already. So for B1 this is not realistic.
> The other one is to use the dmix mechanism of alsa to allow to have 
> virtual devices for your soundcard and are able to use the device from 
> different apps at the same time.
> 
> I had a look at dmix a few month ago and it worked ok - we would have to 
> test it again in a 'real' situation.
>   Simon
> 
> 
> 
> Jean Pich? wrote:
>>
>>
>> Since we have now agreed that the csound server will be running 
>> univorc.csd from startup as a system deamon, a new issue arises with 
>> table and instrument numbers. We run the risk of encountering Ftable 
>> number collisions and instrument number collisions between apps.
>> For the time being, and as to not get in the way of any instruments 
>> Barry and Richard  are perhaps preparing, we propose to reserve 
>> instrument #s from 5000 to 6000  and table #s from 5000 to 6000 for 
>> the exclusive use of TamTam.
>>
>> Important:  When your app closes, it is important that it free up its 
>> tables lest it hog ram when its not in use. We do this by running a 
>> ftfree instrument (instr 5000)  in univorc.csd when tamtam exits. We 
>> need to figure out a way to make a general purpose instrument in the 
>> univorc.csd to kill any tables on exit. If we have time, we will 
>> propose a solution that everyone can use. For the trime being, it will 
>> be up to each application to do its house cleaning. We all agree that 
>> this is NOT a desirable way to do it and it will be changed for beta-2.
>>
>>
>>
>> j
>>
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